> If it's just unreliability then it might be a hard problem to solve.

It might, but it certainly helps having a ton of them around. Given that they used 42 of them today and 2 failed in some fashion, we'll call that a 1:21 failure rate. On a more typical rocket with say 10 engines (eg falcon 9), there's a good chance they wouldn't have seen the same failure till flight 3.

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avmich 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Given that they used 42 of them today

20+10+3=33 on the booster, 3+3=6 on the Ship, total 39.

I remember Elon said they want to add 2 engines to the first stage, but that still would be 41. Where's the 42th supposed to be?

	▲	Octoth0rpe 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I messed up, for some reason I had it in my head that there were 9 on starship, so 33 + 9 = 42.

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brianwawok 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s something like up to 6 can fail and it keeps going, seems pretty good. I know they did some stuff like remove a heat tile to get failure feedback, wonder if engine was planned or accidental

	▲	NetMageSCW 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Accidental since they didn’t make the sub-orbit they were aiming for and thus couldn’t test engine re-light.

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